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The president of Tennessee Tech University has disavowed a study used to help justify the repeal of tighter federal emissions standards for a type of freight trucks, saying that experts now question “the methodology and accuracy” of the industry-funded test. Fitzgerald Glider Kits — which makes new truck bodies, called gliders, that house refurbished engines — had…

Two senior U.S. Geological Survey officials have stepped down after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke demanded that they provide his office with confidential data on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska before it was released to the general public. Murray W. Hitzman and Larry Meinert — who had served as the agency’s associate director for energy and minerals and…

Understanding an ecosystem means following changes in the abundances and identities of the species present as the clock ticks. The BioTIME database should help. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com from Scientific American: Energy & Sustainability http://ift.tt/2CAlevv

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